Voiced alveolar lateral affricate
| Voiced alveolar lateral affricate | |
|---|---|
| d͡ɮ | |
| dɮ | |
| λ | |
| IPA number | 104 (149) |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | d͡ɮ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+0064 U+0361 U+026E |
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The voiced alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨d͡ɮ⟩ (often simplified to ⟨dɮ⟩).
Features of the voiced alveolar lateral affricate:
Voiced alveolar lateral affricates are rare. Sandawe has been transcribed with [dɮ], but the sound is more post-alveolar or palatal than alveolar. Consonants written dl in Athabaskan and Wakashan languages are either tenuis affricates, [t͜ɬ] (perhaps slightly voiced allophonically), or have an approximant release, [tˡ] or [dˡ]. In Montana Salish, /l/ may be prestopped, depending on context, in which case it may be realized as [ᵈl] or as an affricate [ᵈɮ̤]. In the Nguni languages [d͡ɮ] occurs after nasals: /nɮ̤/ is pronounced [nd͡ɮ̤], with an epenthetic stop, in at least Xhosa and Zulu.
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